It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWeakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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